Quoting Niels Bohr, Discussion with Einstein on Epistemological Problems in Atomic Physics, 1949

the two kinds of truth. To the one kind belong statements so simple and clear that the opposite assertion obviously could not be defended. The other kind, the so-called “deep truths,” are statements in which the opposite also contains deep truth.

— Niels Bohr, Discussion with Einstein on Epistemological Problems in Atomic Physics, 1949

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